Tokyo has confirmed 107 new coronavirus infections, its highest daily tally in two months, but Japan’s chief cabinet secretary has said there is no need to reintroduce a state of emergency.
“It’s really unpleasant that it is increasing somewhat. I’d like to ask all Tokyo residents and everyone at businesses for their cooperation to prevent that,” said the city’s Governor Yuriko Koike.
England plans to
reopen schools
UK Secretary of State for Education Gavin Williamson has unveiled his plan to reopen schools to all pupils in September.
Among other measures, students will be divided into separate groups, known as “bubbles”, to limit contact and to better isolate new infections. Schools should consider asking pupils in different bubbles to follow separate start and finish times but break times and free periods may be cut to ensure this does not reduce teaching time.
At present, only some students in certain year groups and the children of key workers are at school.
Saudi Arabia extends economic aid
Non-COVID-19 related deaths spike in Indian city
A spike in non-coronavirus related deaths in the Indian city of Ahmedabad highlights the effect of the pandemic on general healthcare, doctors warn.
The rise in the number of deaths in the most populous city in western Gujarat state is due to patients with serious illnesses either not able to go to hospitals or being afraid to visit them because of the virus, doctors said.
A man lights an oil lamp inside the tomb of Ahmad Shah during a special prayer meeting for the victims of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), amid the spread of the disease in Ahmedabad, Data collected from twenty-four Hindu crematoriums and four of the largest Muslim graveyards in the city shows there have been 3,558 deaths in April and 7,150 in May.
During the same months the previous year, the number of reported fatalities were, respectively, 2,784 and 2,706.
The numbers contain “ominous signals” for the rest of the country, doctor Rajib Dasgupta, a professor of community health at New Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University, told Reuters News Agency.
